Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The US House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Tuesday about racism and discrimination that targets Muslim, Arab and South Asian Americans and violates of their civil rights.
Fifteen years after the University of Maryland’s University Senate approved an Asian American Studies minor, the university’s APIDA Social Justice Task Force of the Asian American Student Union released a petition to push for an Asian American Studies major.
Students called on Harvard to establish an ethnic studies department and condemn racism against Asian Americans during a Tuesday morning rally in Harvard Yard.
As AAPI hate crimes continue, two plans offer different approaches
“We’re being targeted because of the stereotypes about us, that we won’t fight back, that we’re submissive,” advocate Sung Yeon Choimorrow said.
Advocates have collected nearly 11,000 reports of anti-Asian hate as of the end of 2021.